A man faces more than 55 years in prison after pleading guilty to molesting four young girls and downloading a massive child pornography collection.

Bryan William Anast, 46, pleaded guilty Monday to nine felony counts, including lewd acts on a child and possession of child pornography.

He is expected to be sentenced Friday to 55 years and four months in prison and ordered to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said.

The victims included three relatives and a family friend. Anast told an Orange County Sheriff’s Department investigator he is sexually attracted to girls between ages 8 and 10 and downloaded pornography to try to control his urges, according to a search warrant affidavit filed in court.

He compared his problem to a drug addiction.

Anast, who lived in Corona and worked at Disneyland as a ride machinist, touched all the victims sexually with his hands, according to court documents. He was babysitting one of the girls at the time. Other incidents happened at family homes and during a camping trip.

The first victim, a relative, went to police in another state last year to say Anast started abusing her when she was 3 or 4 years old. She said he continued until she was 13.

In a secretly recorded phone call with that woman, Anast admitted what he’d done and said he also “took a peek” at two other girls, according to the search warrant.

“He addressed that he knew it was wrong and that he needed help,” a prosecutor wrote in a court filing.

Those other two victims, a family friend and a relative, later told detectives Anast fondled them at homes in Orange and Los Angeles counties between 1996 and 2000. The abuse started when each girl was about 7, prosecutors said.

In June 2013, sheriff’s investigators went to Disneyland and questioned Anast at the park’s public safety office. He first asked for a lawyer but later admitted to some of the abuse and to downloading child porn. He was arrested then.

When investigators searched his apartment, court records show, they found large amounts of child pornography on computers and flash drives: 48,000 photos and 400 videos.

About 10 of the videos appeared to be homemade. While watching them, investigators learned of the fourth victim – another relative, according to court documents.

In the covertly recorded call, Anast told the first victim he moved to California because he “couldn’t stand” what he was doing to her. But the abuse continued when that girl visited California.

Anast said in the call that he had tried to get help by going to churches, but no one would help him without going to police.

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